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Paul Feig Hinting at a ‘Ghostbusters 2’
Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters (review) isn’t even out yet in the United States and already there is talk about a post-credits scene that hints at what may come in a future sequel.
Since there are going to be spoilers in this post, I’m going to write up the main facts and then embed a video. If you want to know what’s after the credits, you can scroll down. But don’t say I didn’t warn you!
The film, which comes out July 15th, stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones. Director Feig has filmed cameos (in new roles) for many of the original Ghostbusters cast, including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and even Sigourney Weaver.
Andy Garcia, Michael Kenneth Williams, Matt Walsh, Neil Casey, and Pat Kiernan also star alongside Chris Hemsworth.
“SNL” vet Neil Casey is the main Ghostbusters villain, Rowan, and was described as a convicted murderer who turns into a ghost after his execution is hit by a supercharged electrical storm. This gives him the power to raise an army of other ghosts, which could be made up of famous villains throughout history.
Okay, now that all of that is out of the way, let’s talk about what happens in the post-credits scene, shall we?
Apparently Leslie Jones’ character Patty is listening to some equipment when she hears something that catches her attention. She turns to the other Ghostbusters and asks, “What’s Zuul?”
Zuul is the spirit that inhabited Weaver’s character Dana in the 1984 original Ghostbusters. Zuul is the minion of Gozer and is one half of the gatekeeper/key master duo.
Feig explained this little gag to IGN, “From the original movie Zuul is the bad guy who controls all the doings that go on. It’s such a great character we thought ‘well it would be fun if you could do a sequel,’ and who knows, to kind of have him in the mix?”
That being said, Feig is also very quick to explain that this doesn’t confirm a sequel NOR does it confirm that Zuul would be the villain in a second film. He’s simply saying that they’re open to the idea of another movie and the possibility of Zuul being a character at some point.
“We wanted to say possibly there’s something you know from the first one can come in. Again it’s not about creating the cinematic universe where suddenly there’s a worm-hole and the original Ghostbusters show up, although somebody might do that at some point. But I don’t know, it was kind of a little comfort food, easter egg, that gives us an opening if we wanted to do another movie.”
So, let’s not get ourselves worked up. This is simply a gag that is meant to pay homage to the original movie.
A contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator is on the way, and Deadline has unveiled the first look at the new Herbert West and the pathologist drawn to his orbit.
The original screenplay and storyline come from Jade Sandberg Wallis.
Michael Grossman (“The Originals”, “Pretty Little Liars”) directs.
The new images introduce star Joseph Morgan (“Vampire Diaries“), who plays “brilliant surgeon and scientist Herbert West, who is obsessed with creating a serum to reanimate the dead.” Katie Cassidy (Speed Demon) stars opposite as the pathologist with a troubled past who joins his efforts.
Together, they prove that conquering death may be the ultimate sin against life itself.
The film’s official synopsis: “As a child, Herbert West watches his father Peter reanimate his dead mother Judith in a secret basement lab — only for Judith to mortally wound Peter and nearly kill Herbert before Peter shoots her. The trauma leaves its mark on Herbert, but so does one final image: his mother’s finger, twitching after death. Thirty years later, Herbert West is a brilliant, secretive surgeon still chasing his father’s obsession.
“Pathologist Kate Locke arrives in town and is drawn into his orbit — first through a spark at a hospital fundraiser, then through his secret lab, where he reveals a serum capable of reanimating severed tissue. Kate, hiding a dark past of her own, is thrilled rather than horrified, and moves into West’s mansion to work alongside him. Their early experiments on a cadaver succeed only briefly. West concludes that dead tissue is the problem — they need something fresher.”
Supporting cast includes Scott Aiello, Ira J Amyx, Randall Newsome, Emma Reinagal, James D. Bryce, Kathryn A Bentley, Jack Lancaster, Amy Holland Pennell, John Pierson, Mindy Shaw, Eric Dean White, Tristan Wilder Hallet, Adrienne Lamping, Aaron Crippen, and Drew Patterson.
Makeup artist Jeff Lewis (“Star Trek: Voyager,” “Star Trek: Enterprise”) and cousin Roger Lewis are heading the production via their newly established Woodlake Entertainment.
Lovecraft’s short story, first serialized in Home Brew magazine in 1922, is the first among his works to mention the fictional Miskatonic University. It was most famously adapted into a 1985 horror movie from Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West.
Herbert West: Reanimator is set in Alton, Illinois, where production is now underway.
Herbert West: Reanimator. Photo credit: Matt Lief Anderson
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